I was five years old when our family arrived in Kitchener, Ontario. My parents, Jacob and Olga Hamm, had been able to pay their travel fare from Russia to Canada. I can remember a rainy Saturday evening when I was sitting on a wicker suitcase waiting for my father while he looked for our Reimer […]

When I was about three years old, I got my new Sunday dress dirty. I was afraid my parents would punish me so I looked for a place to hide. Our home was just two houses back of the village variety store; I ran and hid in the barrel where the store owners kept their […]

My parents, John and Marie Dick, along with my brother Henry and I docked in Quebec in August of 1924. I was 2 1/2 years old and remember the following incident. Our family had a little stool which they took with them to Canada. Whenever my parents were not nearby I needed to sit quietly […]